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Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment
The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot
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Kamala Harris Can Pull It Off — If She Shows the Discipline and Grace of Her Nomination Speech
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What’s the Path for Warner Bros. Discovery After Dismal Earnings, Sunk Stock Price and Shrinking Options? | Analysis
Warner stock has sunk by 70% since its April 2022 merger with Discovery, and Wall Street is calling on the David Zaslav-led media giant to explore strategic alternatives, such as asset sales
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Kamala Harris Has an Unprecedented Hollywood Power Base – and It’s Already Gone to Work for Her
From Disney’s Dana Walden and CAA’s Bryan Lourd to Beyonce and Octavia Spencer, Harris is practically without peer in industry support
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Why ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Turned J.D. Vance Against Hollywood — and the Media
He told his partners, “I’m done with Hollywood,” as he turned to support Donald Trump and policies he once disdained
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Hollywood’s Family Business: Paramount Passes From the Redstones to Ellisons
Whether it was called Viacom or CBS or Paramount Global, Paramount has been an actual family business, and will remain so
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Jeffrey Katzenberg Under Fire From Hollywood Biden Donors: ‘Jeffrey Lied’
“Everyone is furious,” says a leading Hollywood Democratic insider. “People are pissed – they feel betrayed.”
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Paramount, Skydance Merger Is on Again in $2.4 Billion Deal
But NAI’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone might be setting off a bidding war ahead of Sun Valley
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Hollywood’s Jewish Founders: How the Academy Museum Got It So Wrong, Twice
A controversy over the treatment of Jews in the museum exhibit touches the culture wars: “We will not and we do not tolerate antisemitism at the Academy,” AMPAS told TheWrap
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Motion Picture Academy Vows to ‘Thoughtfully’ Address Criticism of ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ in Exhibit on Jewish Founders | Exclusive
Outraged Jewish creatives say the exhibit that takes pains to point out Hollywood founders’ flaws with terms like “oppressive,” “tyrant” “predator,” “frugal”
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Why Hollywood Is Too Exhausted and Scared to Enjoy Donald Trump’s Conviction
The exhaustion is palpable along with the sense that if justice was served, Trump may still end up president, anyway
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Women Recoil in Cannes as Harvey Weinstein Still Looms, While a Sexist System Persists
Only four of the 22 films in the main competition this year — less than 20% — were made by women filmmakers
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‘Megalopolis’ Confounds Cannes Audience as Laughter Drowns Out Cringey Dialogue
Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday
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Paramount’s Options: Apollo-Sony or Skydance? The CEO Office Might Win Out | Analysis
The three-man Office of the CEO offered a plan to sell the Paramount lot, slash headcount and maybe even sell Pluto
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How the Student Pro-Palestine Movement Blew It: ‘Humanitarian Aid’ and Banana Allergies
They’ve defined themselves as a bunch of entitled, whiny kids who want every single political demand immediately. And also: the meal plan.
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David Pecker and The National Enquirer: When a Tabloid Becomes a Political Tool
We still don’t know why David Pecker risked his career, his company and any shred of public regard to help Donald Trump
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